Spinach and champagne. Going back to the kitchens at the old Waldorf. Dancing on the kitchen tables, wearing the chef's headgear. Finally, a crash and being escorted out by the house detectives.

["The Sun Also Rises" is about] bullfighting, bullslinging and bullsh[*]t.

Millie Beggs, by the time she was forty-five, had become an emotional anarchist.

We get something to do and as soon as we've got it, it gets us.

One illusion is as good as another.

Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.

All I want to be is very young always and very irresponsible and to feel that my life is my own-to live and be happy and die in my own way to please myself